Jessica Danaher - Eating Insects
Episode 1266, Feb 15, 2022, 08:30 PM
Insects are sustainable, nutritious and delicious. They’re eaten by more than two billion people worldwide, mostly in the tropics, and have been a staple in Indigenous Australians’ diets for tens of thousands of years.
Yet eating insects isn’t mainstream in Australia.
Lecturer in Nutrition at RMIT, Jessica Danaher surveyed 601 Australians on their experience with, and attitude towards, edible insects and she joined us this morning to talk about what she found.